This review guide is intended to help you organize your studying and preparation for Quiz #2 (morphology). Use lecture outline slides and data sets, your own notes, assigned readings and handouts, and past prep questions and their feedback.
The quiz will focus on topics that were discussed in class.
Some questions may ask you to think about how a rule or pattern is similar to or different from a rule or pattern that we have seen in class or in a handout. Some questions may involve data from non-standard dialects of Japanese, and you may be asked to apply and compare or modify the analysis for standard Japanese (as covered in class) to make it fit the other dialect. More generally, you may be asked to apply what you know to a new or unfamiliar situation.
1. What to expect / how to prepare
- The quiz is in class, on paper, closed-book except for your notes page (see below)
- Types of questions to expect:
- Short-answer questions drawing on basic concepts and definitions
- Small or medium-sized data set-based questions, similar to those that we have worked through in prep questions or in class
- Questions providing results from a dictionary or corpus search that ask you to interpret the results in the context of linguistic analysis
- You may prepare and bring one page of notes:
- Letter-size paper (8.5 x 11 inches) or A4, or smaller
- You may write notes on both sides of the paper
- Your notes page must be handwritten — no screenshots or scans
- If you handwrite on your device and print the result, that's okay
- Your notes page must be turned in with the quiz (it won't be graded)
- You may collaborate with classmates to prepare your notes page, but the writing on your page must be your own
2. Content covered by the quiz: Morphology
Many, though not necessarily all, of the following topics will be included on the quiz.
- Morpheme segmentation — given a set of morphologically
complex forms, compare their segmental content and their meanings
to identify the morphemes they contain
- Be able to discuss morphological analysis in the context of our morphological model: how morphemes are stored in the mental lexicon and combined to form words
[Morphology in the mental grammar]
- Recognize the adjective suffixes covered in class handouts and data sets
[adjective morphology data set] |
[A/V inflection summary]
- Recognize the verb suffixes covered in class handouts and data sets
[verb morphology data set] |
[A/V inflection summary]
- Know how the suffix forms differ for vowel-root verbs and consonant-root verbs
- Be able to identify the root of a verb and produce other inflected forms
- Past tense:
- Recognize that -ta (sometimes appearing as -da) is the verb past-tense suffix
- Predict the informal past-tense form of a verb, given its root (this is a good use for your notes page!)
- Understand the relationship between the past-tense phonological changes in the consonant-verb roots, and the options for legal mora structure in Japanese
- Given an irregular verb, be able to identify where its pattern differs from that of a regular verb [Data set: irregular verbs]
- Know the word classes (syntactic categories, "parts of speech")
used in Japanese, and some of the tests for determining word class
[word classes handout] |
[A/V inflection summary]
- Focus on V, A, N, AN
- Given a word/root in several contexts, be able to recognize what word class it belongs to
- Be able to suggest ways of determining whether some word/root belongs to word class "X" or "Y"
- Given results from a dictionary or corpus search, be able to interpret them in the context of linguistic analysis [Corpus data on N, AN] | [ Distributional evidence for word class: Corpus data]
- Rendaku will not be covered on the quiz